*snort*

So reading Howard Taylor's Schlock Mercenary is part of my daily routine, as you can see from my sidebar on Web Comics. Not necessarily in this order, check Schlock Mercenary, check Day by Day, check Mallard Fillmore, check Girl Genius or Buck Godot, depending on what day it is...

Today's Schlock has the added extra attraction of having a hilarious footnote:

Note: By a curious quirk of chemistry, 20th- and 21st-century MREs with a 10-year shelf-life at 285 Kelvin stop going bad after about seventy years, and very, very slowly start getting better...

It gets better from there. Really. If you ever had to eat MREs, especially the early versions, it's short, but funny.

"Exquisite mousse" indeed...